Herbert Asquith

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    Both th’ old discoveries, and the new-found seas,
    The stock and surplus, cause and historie:
    All these stand open, or I have the keyes:
    Yet I love thee.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    —Margot Asquith (1864–1945)